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that it would be judicious on her part to do so:
such are the absurdities and atrocities which this
man of “superior knowledge” and "exact statement”
has contrived to crowd into the compass of a sentence
— which this man of a temper superior to “the
ardour of serving a party”, has attempted to impose
upon his readers.

In the nomenclature of politics
there are certain established phrases, by which innocence
and wisdom are branded with contempt,
guilt and folly recommended to admiration and to
practice. In this dictionary, peace and tranquillity
are represented by sloth, obscurity, and insignificance;
bloodshed and destruction by vigour,
spirit, activity, a sense of national glory, 209 and so on. In the
faculty of ringing the change upon their phrases,
consists the skill by which writers of the complexion
of this ministerial advocate prove their title to
the apellation of adepts in politics.

In these five and twenty years last
past, Sweden has enjoyed the benefits of peace;
her scanty population and as slender substance
have been undergoing a slow but regular increase,
to the great mortification of her active and spirited
sovereign, who, ever since corruption, and her companion
Liberty, have been expelled the Constitution
by armed force, has been labouring to “rescue her
from insignificance”. British protection, & Turkish,
I hope not British gold, have at length crowned
his

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c8
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	bowring, x, 207ff	ID Number	3381
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